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Cover photos: Front cover, “Beginnings, Mt Air, OH” Gordon Grigsby
Back cover: “Endings, Oakland, CA” Barbara Bergmann
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L D Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Clela Reed, Matthew Mendoza, Matthew Spireng, Ace Boggess, Kristin Laurel, Jan Bowman, Joanne Durham, Maple Davis
AMELIA COULON The Call 8
ANDREW C MILLER Cuz 19
MARTE CARLOCK Mexican Food 33
BRIAN CHRISTOPHER GIDDENS Peaches 56
FRANK RICHARDS Things People Made 66
DEBORAH S PRESPARE Bumbo 78
M A PHILLIPS Grosgrain Taffeta 88
KEVIN BROWN The Sweetest Scent 109
RON TORRENCE Love in the Afternoon 119
STANTON YEAKLEY Watching Bird 128
MARCO ETHERIDGE Billy and Joey Give Up on Halloween 143
BEATE SIGRIDDAUGHTER Domestic 153
MARIA WICKENS Food Chain 156
GC ROSENQUIST The Wig 172
STEPHEN IVES Manasota Key 189
DAVID DESJARDINS Pieces of a Life 207
ZARY FEKETE Mirrors 223
SUE ALLISON The Last Dream Essay 40
KATHRYN BROWN RAMSPERGER Taming My Words 50
BECCA BAISCH Pretty Knives 98
PRESS STAFF AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS
KAILEN NOURSE-DRISCOLL 38
CLELA REED 65
AARON FISCHER 72
PEGGY TROJAN 95
L.D. ZANE 104
PATTI SULLIVAN 138
ANTHONY J MOHR 156
MITZI KIRKBRIDE 188
AMANDA NICOLE CORBIN hereditary 15
MICHAEL MINASSIAN Baby, You’re So Cruel 16
The Next Storm 17
ALAN SWOPE A Piece of Work 18
Witness 18
ASHLEY KNOWLTON Camping at Prairie Creek 30
CATHERINE COUNDJERIS The Rings of Saturn 31
RIKKI SANTER Stepsisters At Large 32
CARLA MCGILL Ancestry 36
Pal 37
Scenes from the Day Grandpa Died 37
CAROL EVERETT ADAMS Girl Finally Invited to Leadership Camp 38
PATRICIA L HAMILTON Help Me 39
MARTY KRASNEY History Lessons 43
Watch 44
MARK THALMAN Power Outage 45
Attendance 46
The Announcement 47
Year After Year 48
Resignation 48
SCOTT BLACKWELL MITCHELL Infinity 54
ROBERT RICE Every Bird Knows That* 55
DAN FITZGERALD Forgive My Ingratitude 56
ELIAS KERR Trans (Re)incarnation 62
What Runs Through the Family 63
SHERRILL ALESIAK Thursday Morning Weather 63
To the Ears of My Bones 64
J R FORMAN Spring Sleep (original Bùi Minh Quốc) 65
CHASE D SPRUIELL the fetal position 72
the other side 73
MARTINA REISZ NEWBERRY Church 74
… Unless Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing… 75
The Fifth Season 76
Pillars of Creation in a Star-Forming Region* 77
ETHAN ALTSHUL A Harvest Moon 85
LEE LANDAU I Miss You, Ellen 86
DANIEL A RABUZZI Hidden in Plain Sight 87
AL MAGINNES How Salvation Worked 94
CAMERON MORSE Marvel 95
STEPHANIE KEEP Empty Cup Full 96
Blinds 97
JO-ANNE CAPPELUTI If there be any praise…in memory of American, middle class 97
MARK JACKLEY Paul Sinegal 105
Dream of Indian Summer 105
RICHARD LEVINE Albuquerque 106
ALICE G WALDERT Annual Childcare Visit 106
Huntington Street 107
ELLEN GOLDSMITH Mid-March Rain 108
JOAN E BAUER Alcatraz 110
The Apple Pan on Pico 111
FRANCINE WITTE The World Is Finished 112
Hello from Old Times 113
Have You Seen? 113
RUBY HAWKINS Truth 114
Sister Is a Working Fool 115
Christmas at Sister’s House 117
VICTOR PEARN green onions 119
YAHYA AL-DEEN Came to My Senses 125
CYNTHIA RAUSCH ALLAR Circling the Fire 126
HEATHER KENEALY January Sixth 126
CHARLENE LANGFUR Making a Go of It 128
DANA STAMPS, II Sound Alone 138
Losing at Checkers to Grandpa 139
HANNAH RODABAUGH Last Sighting of the Dodo (Mauritius Island) 140
Habitat Diorama | Great Auk 141
WESS MONGO JOLLEY Taste of Spring in an Early Winter Chill 142
JOHN ZEDOLIK Uncertain License 151
JENNIFER DOTSON Sequoia’s Secret Strength, a Cascade 152
Sequoia and Fire, a Sweetelle 152
PATRICIA (TOVA) MCMILLEN Passing Time 153
HOLLY DAY Live Bait 154
GREG MOGLIA Against the Light 155
RICHARD ROBBINS Subtraction 156
FRANK JAMISON Japanese Maple Close beside the House 164
Honey 164
JOAN PRESLEY Parade Rest 165
JUDITH AMBER The Dormouse in the Gin Bottle 166
Measuring My Life 167
We Are the 99 Percent 169
JOANNE HOLDRIDGE Summer’s End 170
NICOLETTE REIM Tattoos 183
JIM DANIELS The Fountain of Youth 184
Salting 184
ARTHUR GINSBERG Life in the Balance 186
MICHELLE HARTMAN Drowning 187
One Woman’s Treasure 188
KAT BODRIE Pulling Teeth 195
Little Boxes 197
Injections 199
WILLIAM OREM For my parents, both deceased, from this my fifty-fourth year 202
Nauset Light 203
Night Song 205
Lightning Strike 206
ADRIAN S POTTER The Best Place to Store Hope Is in a Hope Chest 207
KATHRYN DE LEON This Poem Is About 219
JOSCELYN WILLETT still do 220
JACOB FRIESENHAHHN grief 221
haystacks 222
KEN AUTREY Mount Arab 227
Lesson 228
Tending Fire 229
MITZI KIRKBRIDE Youngling 230
BRUCE TAYLOR Know Thy Selfie: Google Scholar 230
Some Not So Famous Photos from History 231
MARTY WALSH We Drink from the Same Cup 232
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